Choose Best Web Hosting For Your Website

In this post i’ll tell you guys how to choose the best web hosting for your website.

Selecting a web hosting company is not at all an easy task and while selecting one, you need to keep all factors in mind.

There are a number of hosting companies available around the globe and the search becomes more difficult when you are not educated enough on stuffs like bandwidth, hared servers, dedicated servers, etc.

Firstly I would like to tell the very first step in the process of choosing  a good web hosting. So the first and the most important step is to find out your hosting requirements before looking for best hosting companies.

Then come the follwing in the path of how to choose web hosting.

What Is VPS And Dedicated Hosting And What To Choose?

If your site is getting consistently high traffic then  choose a virtual private server (VPS) or  dedicated hosting account.

These hosts give you an independent space!!

So now the question is what’s the difference between VPS and dedicated hosting?

Ans)  A VPS has multiple accounts on the same server, but unlike shared hosting service, there are only a few and they are all isolated from each other.

Dedicated servers have one account per machine: the server is entirely yours, but you would pay for the privilege.

If you’ve never created a site before, choose shared hosting.

But if your site is for your business then try to purchase an account one step up from your needs, if you can afford it. Also, shared hosting puts business sites at risk if it’s compromised by another user, so you are better off with a VPS.

In the same way, any growing company should be looking for a dedicated server before their VPS becomes restrictive.

•  One of the  imp. key factors that are to be considered while selecting a web hosting company is the service uptime. You should always go for the 99.99% or 99.9% service up time.

•  Service up time affects a lot in any sort of web business. If your website is up through out the year then you make more business. But if the service is getting down frequently you would loose visitors and customers thus loosing business.

Now let us have a look at some important terms :

• Data transfer/bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your server to the visitor when they visit and browse through your website.

• Though most of the commercial web hosting companies claim to provide unlimited bandwidth but in reality it is not true. Hosting companies also have to pay for the bandwidth so why would some one else pay for the bandwidth that you are using. So never believe in “unlimited bandwidth” policy!!  It must have mentioned somewhere on the fair usage policy page about the use of bandwidth.

What is Disk Space

As mentioned above about the unlimited bandwidth, the same policy is also applied to unlimited disk space usage. Though the hosting companies mention in the features as unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth, make sure that you take time and read their fair usage policy. In reality nothing is as given unlimited there is always a limit attached to anything.

What is SFTP, SSH, MySQL, Cron Job, PHP, Perl, .htaccess,

You need to make sure that the hosting provider provides all of the above features as part of their hosting service!

Not all hosting companies provide all of the above features. So keep a check on this!!

What are Multiple Domain Hosting and Sub Domains ? ?

Multiple web hosting is one of the important factors in choosing a good hosting company. Check if the hosting provider has the option for multiple domain hosting, what is the extra charge for it etc. Similarly make sure that you get unlimited sub-domains hosting with your hosting package.

What is Control Panel

The control panel is one of the most important factor in selecting a web hosting  This is the main tool from where you control your website functions.

How To Check The Reliability

•  Check if the web hosting is reliable or not. For this, read reviews and comments on different hosting review websites.

• Before finalizing the hosting company, check that the hosting company is good and has been running since a long time and is not a new one.

• Check that the hosting service does have some sort of backup plans to help you when the service is down. Backup plans are the one that make a hosting service the best from all other.

• Then check that the hosting service provides 24/7 friendly customer support with quality technical support.

So now you know how to choose the best web hosting for your website !!

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